Defense, prosecutors deliver closing arguments at Kiehl murder trial - Ravenna Record Courier
Rather than rely entirely on a self-defense argument, Christopher Kiehl's attorneys elected Friday to argue to a jury a two-pronged approach: That he accidentally shot and killed an Akron man during a confrontation in Edinburg this fall while... Kiehl's attorneys said he accidentally pulled the trigger of his. 45-caliber Colt 1911 handgun, firing a fatal shot into 26-year-old Kyle R. Fox's neck in the middle of S. R. 183 on Sept. Kiehl: I was 'scared,' grabbed gun, shot Kyle Fox in self-defense. He could face life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years, with additional mandatory prison time possible if jurors find he used the firearm in the commission of the crime. "Listening to Chris' testimony, it is not our position he purposely pulled the trigger in self-defense," defense attorney Paul Adamson told Pittman. In his closing argument to the jury, Adamson said Kiehl's gun went off accidentally in the process of defending himself from an assault by Fox, who was intoxicated. "Chris was defending himself from the assault by Kyle," he told the jury of eight men and four women, saying his client only wanted to leave and avoid confrontation with two angry men. "If he was doing that, he didn't commit felonious assault and didn't commit felony murder. Source: www.recordpub.com
